Dr Irene Ovenstone

Career: asst MO of health Huddersfield 1957-61, registrar Huddersfield 1961-64, sr registrar in psychiatry Westminster Hosp London 1964-68, memb Scientific Staff and hon lectr MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry Edinburgh 1969-72, clinical teacher and conslt psychiatrist specialising in psychiatry of old age Univ of Nottingham 1973-94, sec and chm Nottingham Area Psychiatric Div 1974-79, emeritus conslt Nottingham City Hosp NHS Tst 1994, locum conslt psychiatrist in gen psychiatry Mansfield and Newark 1994-2004; memb Working Parties on: Psychiatric Nurse Educn 1974, Drug Custody and Admin 1977, Home for Elderly Project Notts Social Services Dept 1981; chm Notts Health Care Planning Team for Elderly 1981-82; memb: Mental Health Tbnls 1981-2004, Mental Health Cmmn 1983-86, Health Advsy Service 1989, Expert Witness Inst 1999-2009, Expert Witness Accreditation Cert Cardiff Univ 2005- ; author of papers on suicidal behaviour, marital neurosis, admissions to old people's homes in Nottingham; FRCPsych 1979 (MRCPsych 1973)